Women and Flowers: Bhartruhari (Post No.14,517)

Written by London Swaminathan

Post No. 14,517

Date uploaded in London –  15 May 2025

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After God made your eyes of lotus blue

Took for your teeth white jasmine, shaped the whoe

Face as a better lily, chose the hue

And texture of magnolia for your skin,

He the grew tired of soft things, and within

He carved from flint the impenetrable soul.

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Women and Fish

Love goes a-fishing with the rod desire

Baiting his hook with Woman for Delight.

Attracted by the flesh, the men-fish bite.

He hauls them in and cooks them in his fire

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Women is Moon

A face to rival the moon,

Eyes that make mockery of lotuses

Complexion eclipting God’s lustre

Thick tresses that shame the black bee

Breast s like elephants swelling losses

Heavy hips,

A voice enchanting and soft

The adornments in maidens is natural.

Woman is a Sweet and Bitter Fruit

No single plant in this world’s garden- plot

Bears such sweet fruit , such bitter fruit as she:

Ambrosial are the apples on her tree

When she is in love, and poison when she is not.

–Bhartruhari

Tamil poet Tiru Valluvar also says Woman is a disease and she is also the medicine for the disease. This is the basis of Homeopathy as well.

பிணிக்கு மருந்து பிறமன் அணியிழை

தன்நோய்க்குத் தானே மருந்து– குறள் 1102:

Disease and medicine antagonists we surely see;

This maid, to pain she gives, herself is remedy.

Another translation

For all illnesses, the medicine is distinct from the disease, but for the pain she causes,

The bejewelled maiden herself is the cure – 1102

“The medicine for a disease is always something different from it : but for the disease caused by this beautiful maid, she herself is the cure”.1102 -Tirukkural

Woman is a Day and a Year

When you are away

A day is a year:

But when you are here

A year is a day

It is in Sanskrit

Sassaamemaasasamaasamaa

Yoyaatayaatayaayaatiyaayaatyaayaatayaatayaa

First line contains no consonants other than s and m, the second line only y and t.

In Sanskrit they don’t leave space between words.

Ancient Tamil verses also written with little space. Only these two languages use Sandhi/ joining rules until this day. It is seen even in day today Tamil newspapers.

—-subham—

Tags- woman, flower, fish, fruit, day year, disease, medicine, Bhartruhari, Valluvar, Kural

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